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Don't Leave Clergy Alone with Children

By Peter Finneran

18 June 2009

Professor Patrick Parkinson was the lead author on the study of sexual abuse in the Anglican church which was reported around the country including the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Professor Parkinson produced the report in collaboration with Emeritus Professor Kim Oats of the Faculty of Medicine. They recommended to the church that clergy and other church workers should never be alone with adolescents where abuse could occur.